Madame Swetchine quotes

The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

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• Happiness

The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

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• Friends

Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.

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• Vanity

We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.

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• Expectation

We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.

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• Reform

We are rich only through what we give; and poor only through we refuse and keep.

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• Charity

Repentance is accepted remorse.

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• Forgiveness

We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.

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• Strength

How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.

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• Friends

In this world of change naught which comes stays and naught which goes is lost.

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• Change

One must be a somebody before they can have a enemy. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force.

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• Enemy

Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.

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• Strength

Youth should be a savings bank.

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• Youth

There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

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• Goals

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

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